Towards understanding the effect of uncertainty in the number of contributors to DNA stains

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-28

  Buckleton, John S ^a   Curran, James M ^b   Gill, Peter ^c  

^a MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary model; Likelihood ratio; Mixtures

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDITY;

ALLELES; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC GENETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 34248164017     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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